An Alternative View of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

I have a new design philosophy. It’s called
100% Easy to Read. Here are the highlights:

• Don’t tell us to adjust the font size

• Don’t tell us busy pages look better

• Don’t tell us scrolling is bad

• Don’t tell us text isn’t important (95% of “web design” is typography)

• Don’t tell us to get glasses (use a font-size that’s large enough)

Here are the 5 basic rules:

1.  Standard font size for long texts

2. Active white space

3. Reader-friendly line height

4. Clear color contrast

5. No text in images

There are two other concepts that jumped out at me: using text as an
interface, and the understanding that typography is not the art of
selecting typefaces.
Typography
is so much more.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the presentation of my text lately. Until now
it’s been about the formatting of the text within the post itself, but now
I’m thinking more about the look of the entire page and site.

I’m going to be doing a lot with this in coming weeks and months. I at least
have an idea of what I want; now I just need to get there. I thank the
heavens for CSS.: